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Being the Only Socialist in the Family Rule (midwest.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Honestly at a certain point labels only help when you share a common definition with your audience.

If I call myself a socialist I need to preface it by defining socialism because everyone above 25 still thinks it means autocratic dictatorial regime where the government owns your underpants.

I just tell people that democracy is better than monarchy so we should expand that to workplaces and give workers a vote on the direction of their workplace. Most people are more amenable to this than dropping the S word or god forbid C word.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just tell people that democracy is better than monarchy so we should expand that to workplaces and give workers a vote on the direction of their workplace. Most people are more amenable to this than dropping the S word or god forbid C word.

I used to live out in the boonies, surrounded by rednecks, and this approach worked almost every time unless one of them was well-read enough to know I was talking about socialism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

And in my experience the well read ones will either screech about socialism or are themselves a socialist.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

"I'm into super democracy. Would you like to argue against democracy as a concept, or just dance around insisting it's somehow different?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Im also an anarchist and get around that by pulling the ol switcheroo on them. I say a bunch of anarchist shit I know they'll agree with and when the times right go "yeah and thats why I'm an anarchist". Gets them to open up a bit and leaves them with a better impression of what anarchism actually is